FBI AGENT: Libby Heard About Plame from CHENEY
FBI AGENT: Libby Heard About Plame from CHENEY
#1FBI AGENT: Libby Heard About Plame from CHENEY
Posted: 2/1/07 at 8:07pm
If I were on this jury, I would be thinking, "Libby...liar...Libby...liar...Libby...liar..."
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FBI Agent Testifies Libby Learned About Plame from Cheney
Scooter Libby
By E&P Staff and The Associated Press
Published: February 01, 2007 10:00 AM ET updates all day
WASHINGTON The "CIA leak" trial resumed today, after two critical days of testimony from reporters Judith Miller and Matt Cooper. As in past days, E&P will provide running updates here.
After a long day or legal wrangling and no witnesses, an FBI agent took the stand shortly before 3 p.m. She is Deborah Bond, a 19-year veteran, called into the probe of who may have leaked name of classified agent.
She described the bureau's interview with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Oct. 14, 2003. Asked where he first learned of Ambassador Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, he had told the FBI then -- from the vice president, on or about June 12 that year, in a telephone conversation.
Vice President Cheney had also said that she worked in "CP" or counter-proliferation at the agency. How did Cheney know this? From someone at the CIA -- possibly director George Tenet, but Libby wasn't sure.
How to explain Libby originally claiming he had first heard about Wilson's wife from NBC's Tim Russert in July? He had simply forgotten he had actually heard it from the vice president a month or more earlier, Libby said. But Libby's notes, produced by prosecutors during this testimony, did show notations from June 12 regarding Wilson's wife. And Libby later confirmed this in a second FBI interview.
But he said it seemed like news to him -- he'd forgotten all about it -- when Russert asked him if he knew that Ambassador Wilson's wife worked at the agency and, allegedly, other reporters knew this. Then Libby told other reporters who might not know about it, including Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post and NBC's Andrea Mitchell.
Libby in that 2003 FBI interview also said he had not mentioned Plame in his July 8 meeting with Judith Miller -- or the lunch with Ari Fleischer that Fleischer testified about earlier. This contradicts their testimony. He also failed to mention his June 23 meeting with Miller, and omitted mentioning other officials who talked about Plame.
And he claimed that in his chat with Time's Matt Cooper he had closed by warning Cooper that what other reporters were saying about Plame working at the CIA might not be true.
He also described other conversations relating to all this with Cheney.
Cross-examination then began, with defense suggesting that Libby, in that first 2003 interview, had not been given fair chance to refresh his memory via notes etc. When he did have that chance, he changed his story, and then stuck to it: He simply forgot about the June 12 chat with Cheney.
The trial broke off before 5. It does not convene again until Monday. The FBI agent will return. Eight hours of Libby's grand jury testimony will be played for the jury. Then Tim Russert will testify, with the prosecution likely to rest around Wednesday.
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FBI Agent Testifies Libby Learned About Plame from Cheney
HDThoreau2
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/11/06
#2God Bless Dick Cheney
Posted: 2/1/07 at 9:48pmAnd Cheney has the constitutional right and obligation to share anything he wishes we he needs to share it. As a constitutional officer, he has the right to declassify information at any time without checking with the democrat party.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#2God Bless Dick Cheney
Posted: 2/1/07 at 10:06pm
thats not the issue.
the issue is
2 counts of perjury
2 counts of making false statements
1 count of obstruction of justice
werent you just stamping your li'l hoofies last night saying that scooter isnt on trial for outing an undercover agent?
i'm agreeing with you.
he isnt on trial for outing an undercover agent.
he's on trial for
2 counts of perjury
2 counts of making false statements
1 count of obstruction of justice
Updated On: 2/1/07 at 10:06 PM
#3God Bless Dick Cheney
Posted: 2/1/07 at 10:44pm
Having the right to declassify information is not exactly the same as having the right to out a covert agent under a separate federal statute.
Updated On: 2/1/07 at 10:44 PM
#4Dick Cheney is 'The Most Insidious of Traitors'
Posted: 2/1/07 at 11:07pm
FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH ON THOSE WHO OUT COVERT CIA AGENTS:
"I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors."
--GEORGE H.W. BUSH, Speech at CIA, 4/26/99
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#5Dick Cheney is 'The Most Insidious of Traitors'
Posted: 2/1/07 at 11:12pm
"...without checking with the democrat party."
Your roots are showing.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#6Dick Cheney is 'The Most Insidious of Traitors'
Posted: 2/1/07 at 11:26pm
"--GEORGE H.W. BUSH, Speech at CIA, 4/26/99"
So tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999!
#7Dick Cheney is 'The Most Insidious of Traitors'
Posted: 2/1/07 at 11:38pm
"There’s no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. 'Democrat Party' is a slur, or intended to be—a handy way to express contempt. Aesthetic judgments are subjective, of course, but 'Democrat Party' is jarring verging on ugly. It fairly screams 'rat.' At a slightly higher level of sophistication, it’s an attempt to deny the enemy the positive connotations of its chosen appellation. During the Cold War, many people bridled at obvious misnomers like 'German Democratic Republic,' and perhaps there are some members of the Republican Party (which, come to think of it, has been drifting toward monarchism of late) who genuinely regard the Democratic Party as undemocratic. Perhaps there are some who hope to induce it to go out of existence by refusing to call it by its name, à la terming Israel 'the Zionist entity.' And no doubt there are plenty of others who say 'Democrat Party' just to needle the other side while signalling solidarity with their own—the partisan equivalent of flashing a gang sign."
--Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
#8Dick Cheney is 'The Most Insidious of Traitors'
Posted: 2/2/07 at 12:50am**** ah, nevermind - Chantipoo is not worth the effort **** Updated On: 2/2/07 at 12:50 AM
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#9Dick Cheney is 'The Most Insidious of Traitors'
Posted: 2/2/07 at 11:53pmFitzgerald must be hitting a nerve; Chantipoo was so worked up into a froth that he had to create a whole new thread!
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#10Dick Cheney is 'The Most Insidious of Traitors'
Posted: 2/2/07 at 11:59pmThe lying party is pitting its liars against liars.
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#11Dick Cheney is 'The Most Insidious of Traitors'
Posted: 2/3/07 at 12:45am
How about this scenario? Cheney is pardoned by Bush who then resigns and new President Dick Cheney issues a full pardon in advance to Bush "in order that our country can move forward and focus on the important issues. Let the healing begin!" They ride off together into the sunset in the perfect fairytale conclusion to the worst administration in American history.
It must be somewhere on that list of contingency plans you just know they're compiling.
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